Shirt-bosom retainer.



No. 782,385. PATENTED FEB. 14, 1 905.

E. H. FIFIELD.

SHIRT BosdM RETAINER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 5. 1903. I

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UNITED STATES Patented. February 14, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

SHIRT-BOSOM RETAINER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 782,385, dated February14, 1905.

Application filedTebruary 5, 1903. Serial No. 142,018.

To (all whm'n, it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD H. FIFIELD, of Somerville, in the county ofMiddlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Shirt-Boson! Retainers, of which the following isa specification.

This invention consists of a device for conforming a shirt front .orbosom to the shape of the wearers body and retaining the shirt in itsproper position whatever be the posture of the body, and is designed toprevent the shirt from bulging out in front, riding at the neck, orshifting from side to side and may be used with an ordinary shirt or ashirt usually worn on full-dress occasions and may be also used forkeeping adjusted and in proper position false shirt-fronts, Whether wornby lady or gentleman.

Unlike other devices of similar nature this device is complete in itselfand independent in its action, as it does not require the garment towhich it is to be attached to be provided with tabs, buttons, orbuttonholes' and is not, in combination with suspenders or other device,to connect it with the trousers.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view of the retaining devicecomplete and spread out. Fig. Qis a front view as worn and in use, andFig. 8 is a back view as worn and in use. Figs. 4, 5, 6, 7 are severallyviews in detail as will hereinafter appear.

This retaining device is composed of three separate and detachable bandsor sections Athe middle band and Band C the two lateral bands. Thelateral sections pass lengthwise through rings D, one for each section,and these are hung or caught by hooks E E at each end of the middlesection. The book E is fastened to one end of the middle section A, andthe middle section is doubled on itself and passesthrougha slot F at theend of the v hook E and being attached to a slide Gr is thus adapted tobe lengthened and shortened, as may be desired. At the end of eachlateral section B and O is a spring-snap of any usual or suitableconstruction H. These snaps, of which a detached view is given in Fig.5, are each hung orconnected by a swivel-joint I to a metal plate or barJ. To this bar J the tape issecured by passing through the slot K andfastened by stitches or otherwise. Figs. 6 and 7 show, respectively, thebase of the snap and the bar detached from the device.

In the use of the retainer the lateral sections B and C are attached oneto each side of the shirt by the snaps H, all as shown in Fig. 2, withthe middle band crossing the back, as shown in Fig. 3, being adjustedproperly, as to length, by the slide G. The swivel attachments of thelateral bands or sections allowthese bands or sections toautomaticallyadjust themselves to the changing positions of the body ofthe wearer, and while the snaps remain fixed in position the attachmentscan assume any angle tothem required by the shifting position of thetape attached to them, thus preventing the tape from becoming turned ortwisted, the lateral sections being also free toslide lengthwise throughthe rings D, as shown in Figs. 1 and 4:.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Pat- I ent, is

A retainlng device for shirt-bosoms comprising a middle band A adaptedto be lengthened and shortened; two lateral or end bands B and C eachhung or connected to an end of the middle band so as to be movablelengthwise thereon, and each of the lateral bands having at its oppositeends a spring-snap H with swivel-joint connections I, as and for thepurpose specified.

In testimony whereof I have afiixed my signature in presence of twowitnesses.

EDWARD H. FIFIELD.

Witnesses:

ALBERT S. AUs'rIN, LUKE E. JENKINS.

